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Re:Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero by tehnub on Monday January 31, 2022 @12:54AM (#30145052)
>If you inspect all of the dozens of draws in this world's Tata Steel, which included ~300 GM-level games, you won't find a single that ends this way.

Here's one: https://www.chess.com/events/2022-tata-steel-chess-tournamen...

Draws by insufficient material are quite common, but I wouldn't call them the bane of modern chess, or anything close to that.

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Re:Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero by vikingerik on Monday January 31, 2022 @11:56AM (#30150222)
Well, GMs agree on a draw well before it actually gets down to insufficient material. Many draws-by-agreement would degenerate into that if they kept playing.
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Re:Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero by tehnub on Monday January 31, 2022 @01:54PM (#30152396)
Well yeah, they usually do that, but draws by insufficient material still happen pretty frequently. Also, king vs. king is not the only way it can end; you'll see king vs. king and knight (or bishop) pop up pretty often too.
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